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Nov 16, 2017

Quick start using ElasticSearch, Kibana with ASP.Net Core 2.0

ElasticSearch and Kibana are two great products to use in your solution. They provide various values to a solution. If you don’t know ElasticSearch and Kibana then I recommend you read more about these technologies or follow me to get more insight on them.

Setup and use Kibana

This will open the Kibana application. The first thing to do is to configure the index pattern before you can start using the goodies in the Kibana web application.

Configure index pattern in Kibana.

After the index pattern is configured then you can click on the Discover menu option to see each of the logging information generated by the web requests you have created.

Web application logging information in Kibana.

Feel free now to explore and create vizualizations, dashboards and timelines in Kibana based on the logging information.

Summary

ElasticSearch and Kibana provides many benefits to you which you can utilize in your web application solution. ElasticSearch specifically is a great search engine that you can use as a view cache to search quickly through information. There is a lot more capabilities ElasticSearch and Kibana have for you to explore and use in your next great ASP.Net Core 2.0 solution.

With the help of containers you can get setup quickly and deploy your solution quickly to any environment. Let me know how you use ElasticSeach and Kibana in your solutions!